CLI LLM Interfaces LLM Tools

Command-line tools that pipe text through LLMs for processing, analysis, or interaction. Includes lightweight CLI wrappers, text processing utilities, and terminal-based LLM clients. Does NOT include IDE plugins, chat applications, specialized domain tools (code compilation, command generation), or broader agent frameworks.

There are 114 cli llm interfaces tools tracked. 3 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is rtk-ai/rtk at 64/100 with 6,644 stars. 2 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	rtk-ai/rtk CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev...	64	Established	6,644	Rust
2	jnsahaj/lumen Beautiful git diff viewer, generate commits with AI, get summary of changes,...	54	Established	1,959	Rust
3	Topos-Labs/infiniloom High-performance repository context generator for LLMs - Transform codebases...	51	Established	27	Rust
4	mpecan/tokf Config-driven CLI tool that compresses command output before it reaches an...	49	Emerging	119	Rust
5	jkawamoto/ctranslate2-rs Rust bindings for OpenNMT/CTranslate2	45	Emerging	50	Rust
6	inimino/cmpr Program in English! LLM-enabled programming framework	43	Emerging	20	C
7	Reim-developer/Sephera Fast Rust CLI for codebase metrics and deterministic LLM context packs	43	Emerging	69	Rust
8	mohsen1/yek A fast Rust based tool to serialize text-based files in a repository or...	42	Emerging	2,435	Rust
9	EffortlessMetrics/tokmd Code intelligence for humans, machines, and LLMs: receipts, metrics, and...	41	Emerging	3	Rust
10	dcdpr/jp LLM-agnostic pair-programming CLI workflows. Like Codex, Claude Code, or...	40	Emerging	10	Rust
11	sysprog21/zhtw-mcp A linguistic linter for Traditional Chinese (zh-TW)	40	Emerging	87	Rust
12	KRLabsOrg/squeez Squeeze verbose LLM agent tool output down to only the relevant lines	39	Emerging	1	Python
13	AgusRdz/chop CLI output compressor for Claude Code. Reduces token consumption by 50–90%...	38	Emerging	4	Go
14	huggingface/llm-ls LSP server leveraging LLMs for code completion (and more?)	38	Emerging	858	Rust
15	braincore/hai-cli A REPL for hackers using LLMs.	38	Emerging	11	Rust
16	claudioemmanuel/squeez Token compression + context memory for Claude Code. Runs automatically. No...	38	Emerging	3	Rust
17	majiayu000/sage Fast Rust CLI for batch-extracting structured observations from Claude Code...	36	Emerging	6	Rust
18	iagooar/qqqa Fast, stateless LLM for your shell: qq answers; qa runs commands	35	Emerging	609	Rust
19	htin1/toktop llm usage monitor in terminal	35	Emerging	158	Rust
20	jasonjmcghee/plock From anywhere you can type, query and stream the output of any script (e.g. an LLM)	32	Emerging	503	Rust
21	guywaldman/magic-cli Command line utility to make you a magician in the terminal	29	Experimental	745	Rust
22	SuppieRK/ccp CLI proxy that cuts noisy terminal output while preserving command behavior	28	Experimental	17	Go
23	zircote/rlm-rs Rust CLI implementing the Recursive Language Model (RLM) pattern for Claude...	28	Experimental	19	Rust
24	anders94/code-llm A CLI tool that works with a local LLM in an iterative chat-like style,...	28	Experimental	34	Rust
25	kennyfrc/llm_ctx Format your codebase for LLMs using Unix-style commands.	28	Experimental	7	C
26	canmi21/clay 🗂️ A Rust-based TUI tool that helps you initialize, manage, lint,...	28	Experimental	1	Rust
27	chaliy/trickery Magic tool to generate things	27	Experimental	2	Rust
28	felix-andreas/gpt-burn Implementation of the GPT architecture in Rust 🦀 + Burn 🔥	26	Experimental	56	Rust
29	fwdai/terse Strips boilerplate and filler from LLM conversation history to reduce token usage	26	Experimental	1	Rust
30	nikuscs/ts-code-scan Single-binary Rust CLI that indexes TS/JS codebases into deterministic JSON...	25	Experimental	3	Rust
31	theoforger/mastermind An LLM-powered CLI tool to help you be a better spymaster in Codenames	25	Experimental	4	Rust
32	hypernetix/lmstudio-rust Rust SDK and CLI for LM Studio: manage, interact, and run LLMs via WebSocket API	25	Experimental	1	Rust
33	clearclown/lala Modern, lightweight multi-format text editor written in Rust with GUI and...	25	Experimental	5	Rust
34	MonumentalSystems/RandyGPT Enhanced GPT implementation in Rust with training - Small model training	25	Experimental	2	Rust
35	kris927b/TextBlaster A Rust tool used for processing large amount of text data in a distributed setting.	25	Experimental	2	Rust
36	yoelt11/cli-pdf-extract A Fast Rust CLI wrapper around pdf_oxide for LLM-friendly PDF extraction,...	24	Experimental	2	Rust
37	polymorphl/my-open-claude LLM-powered coding assistant in Rust. TUI chat & single-prompt CLI. Tools:...	24	Experimental	2	Rust
38	jee599/contextzip ⚡ Compress Claude Code context by 60-90%. Six noise filters RTK doesn't have.	24	Experimental	2	Rust
39	minskylab/auto-rust auto-rust is an experimental project that automatically generate Rust code...	24	Experimental	46	Rust
40	polina4096/liment Convenient macOS app to display LLM usage limits in the tray.	24	Experimental	—	Rust
41	rajashekar/lc Lightweight LLM Client	23	Experimental	1	Rust
42	alliecatowo/lumen Lumen - A markdown-native, statically typed programming language for...	23	Experimental	1	Rust
43	srobinson/fmm Sidecar metadata for source files — 80-90% fewer file reads for LLM agents	23	Experimental	1	Rust
44	d-oit/web-doc-resolver LLM-ready web documentation resolver: Python cascade skill + Rust CLI (wdr)...	23	Experimental	1	Rust
45	Amir-Zecharia/compress-tokens MCP server that compresses text by removing unnecessary tokens using local...	23	Experimental	1	Rust
46	herakles-dev/anvil Application writing forge — guided writing environment for fellowships,...	23	Experimental	1	Python
47	gn0/lui An LLM UI for the command line	23	Experimental	1	Rust
48	mytechnotalent/TinyGPT A pure Rust GPT implementation from scratch.	22	Experimental	4	Rust
49	MoonRace1/RustGPT 🦀 Build a Large Language Model from scratch in pure Rust without external ML...	22	Experimental	—	Rust
50	rhajizada/abacus CLI to benchmark OpenAI-compatible inference APIs	22	Experimental	—	Go
51	skbotoc1-web/openclaw-rust-toolkit Optional Rust condensing layer for OpenClaw with activation rules, usage...	22	Experimental	—	Rust
52	SHA888/diagramma Conversation-aware diagram rendering engine	22	Experimental	—	Shell
53	sriinnu/clipforge-PAKT Lossless-first prompt compression for JSON, YAML, CSV, and Markdown....	22	Experimental	—	TypeScript
54	JSLEEKR/ctxlens LLM context window profiler -- decompose, count tokens, estimate costs	22	Experimental	—	Go
55	urcades/cell Rust-native Cell CLI and terminal UI with plugin support.	22	Experimental	—	Rust
56	snowfire-gtc/Proxima-Centauri A Language (Proxima) & IDE (Centauri) designed from scratch for massive...	22	Experimental	—	C++
57	frizadiga/sepuh Lighter version of sesepuh-hub.	22	Experimental	—	Rust
58	richard-gyiko/which-llm CLI + agent skill for selecting the right LLM based on benchmarks,...	22	Experimental	—	Rust
59	terry-li-hm/consilium Multi-model deliberation CLI — 5 frontier LLMs debate, Claude Opus judges. Rust.	22	Experimental	—	Rust
60	itamaker/runlens Summarize agent and tool JSONL traces for latency, failures, and token usage.	22	Experimental	—	Go
61	etr/wonk Structure-aware code search that cuts LLM token burn. Tree-sitter indexing,...	22	Experimental	—	Rust
62	LakshmiSravyaVedantham/llm-bench Benchmark OpenAI, Claude, Groq on your prompts — blazing fast Rust CLI	22	Experimental	—	Rust
63	deeflect/dee-ink Small Rust CLI tools that work well with LLMs. Each tool does one thing,...	22	Experimental	—	Rust
64	MituuZ/convo-forge A command-line interface for interacting with Ollama and Anthropic language...	21	Experimental	2	Rust
65	jkawamoto/vsop Command line translation tool using CTranslate2	21	Experimental	2	Rust
66	getcollective-ai/collective Automate non-novel work	21	Experimental	11	Rust
67	liam-ilan/gpt-rs A GPT Implementation in Rust on top of tch-rs 🔥 🦀	20	Experimental	56	Rust
68	jamesbrink/why CLI tool that explains programming errors using a locally-embedded LLM. No...	20	Experimental	1	Rust
69	AutoCookies/contextsqueezer A context squeezer tools for AI Agent, reduce token consuption	20	Experimental	1	Go
70	Ashutosh0x/claude-rust A high-performance terminal-integrated LLM engine in Rust	20	Experimental	1	Rust
71	nssalian/litedoc Deterministic document format and parser for LLM output, with Rust core,...	19	Experimental	—	Rust
72	pszemraj/rehuman Unicode-safe text cleaning & typographic normalization for Rust	19	Experimental	—	Rust
73	pszemraj/rustdoc-checker Rust docs linter: catch missing and incomplete doc comments (Arguments,...	19	Experimental	—	Rust
74	hegner123/reporter Compresses go test output into a minimal JSON summary for LLM agents	19	Experimental	—	Go
75	dvnc0/saywhat A CLI tool that takes piped in text and passes it to an LLM.	19	Experimental	—	Rust
76	ikram98ai/nanochat Implementing Karpathy's nanochat in rust.	19	Experimental	—	Rust
77	appwiz/hns Hacker News stories CLI. Stories summarized using Ollama and a local LLM.	19	Experimental	—	Rust
78	joshvoigts/llmctx LLM context builder	19	Experimental	1	Rust
79	marclove/known A CLI tool for managing agentic LLM instruction files in your projects.	18	Experimental	3	Rust
80	AstraRails/ratlang Ratlang is an experimental programming language and toolchain whose entire...	17	Experimental	2	Rust
81	dev-backpack/cllm Empower your CLI experience with a command search tool driven by LLM magic!	16	Experimental	33	Rust
82	ak9024/ask-llm-rs CLI build with Rust to interact with any LLM services.	16	Experimental	1	Rust
83	kcc999/sidechain LLM Evaluations from your CLI	15	Experimental	—	Rust
84	PatWie/polyglot_ls An LLM-based LS implementation that makes use of tree-sitter context to...	15	Experimental	16	Rust
85	k61b/logswise-cli Logswise CLI is a command-line tool for note-taking, context-aware...	15	Experimental	6	Rust
86	anotherhollow1125/dncl_trans DNCL (大学入試センター言語, Daigaku Nyushi Center Language) をRustにトランスパイルするマクロ	15	Experimental	8	Rust
87	NeuralLead2025/harmony Renderer for the harmony response format to be used with gpt-oss rust,...	15	Experimental	—	Rust
88	cameronking4/Annotated-AST-For-LLM Annotated AST for the purposes of LLM code repository context. Use this...	14	Experimental	36	JavaScript
89	blankenshipz/clerk LLM based file organizer	14	Experimental	30	Rust
90	PsychedelicShayna/rmbs Utilizes the Bullshit Remover API to remove bullshit from input text, right...	14	Experimental	2	Rust
91	ducks/llm-tui TUI for LLM interaction with vim bindings, multi-provider support (Ollama,...	14	Experimental	4	Rust
92	dceluis/ln-diff Line-numbered patch format. Non-sequential, llm and stream-friendly	14	Experimental	14	—
93	0x251/Byteforge Next-Generation Byte Transformer made in Rust	14	Experimental	1	Rust
94	quangdang46/why CLI that explains why code exists using git history, blame data, and LLM...	14	Experimental	—	Rust
95	kenyiu/llmpeg-rs A natural language wrapper for ffmpeg implemented in rust	13	Experimental	5	Rust
96	skorotkiewicz/rmux-rs Terminal multiplexer with AI chat, built with Rust and egui	13	Experimental	2	Rust
97	zurawiki/gptee LLMs done the UNIX-y way	13	Experimental	8	Rust
98	twitchyliquid64/mini-prompt Lightweight abstractions for using LLMs via a providers API.	13	Experimental	1	Rust
99	zchee/llmctxenv Similar to pyenv or something, but manages the LLM CLI's context memory...	12	Experimental	1	Go
100	Intro-iu/hintly A Command-line Tool To Generate Commands Using LLM AIs	12	Experimental	3	Rust
101	d1pankarmedhi/ghr ✍️ Generate boilerplate code templates using Rust	12	Experimental	3	Rust
102	coding-kelps/liaisons A CLI client to mine arguments and their relations from social media posts	11	Experimental	—	Rust
103	DiscreteTom/defect Call LLMs in your pipeline, e.g. local git hook, GitHub Actions and more.	11	Experimental	2	Rust
104	nickslevine/rollo rollo is a TUI for exploring JSONL files optimized for LLM rollouts	11	Experimental	—	Rust
105	AdilZouitine/ouakha.rs LLM-based code analysis tool for detecting suspicious or inconsistent code...	11	Experimental	7	Rust
106	PEPL-Lang/PEPL PEPL compiler — lexer, parser, type checker, evaluator, and WASM codegen	11	Experimental	—	Rust
107	Immernachtreich/picx-sort A simple image sorting script written in RUST. It uses a local LLM to sort...	11	Experimental	—	Rust
108	ricardofrantz/nanochat-rs-next Rust-first continuation of nanochat-rs, benchmarked against...	11	Experimental	—	Rust
109	ducks/finna Multi-model debate, spec, and implement tool	11	Experimental	—	Rust
110	ouyangyipeng/CRTrans An LLM-Based Trans-Compilation Tool from C to Rust	10	Experimental	3	Rust
111	darshpanchal/terminal-sage LLM Powered terminal assistant built in Rust	10	Experimental	1	Rust
112	welf/code-context Code context generator for LLMs	10	Experimental	1	Rust
113	mcgeestocks/proofer LLM Proofreader App	10	Experimental	1	Rust
114	tbogdala/evocaition A command-line application to generate text with AI through cloud APIs.	10	Experimental	1	Rust